Week Ending Friday, January 5, 2024
{quotes}
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.
Edith Lovejoy Pierce
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind, while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I have abandoned all particular forms of devotion and all prayer techniques. My only prayer practice is attention. I carry on a habitual, silent, and secret conversation with God that fills me with overwhelming joy.
Brother Lawrence
There is a voice inside of you, that whispers all day long, I feel this is right for me, or I know that this is wrong.
Shel Silverstein
The wind must die, the storm will cease: God rules and there is peace. Be still and let God’s calm, sweet knowing fill your breast: There is none else but God: Rest. Rest.
Elizabeth Simonion Thomas
{blessings}
This will be a good year. Live it fully.
May God bless you to be the sunshine even when the sun isn’t shining.
{prayers}
New Beginnings
Thank You, God, for start-overs, do-overs, and get over-its. Today is the perfect day to round up my blessings and give You a great big collective thanks for every lucky break and for each unexpected happenstance. Today is the day I thank You, God, over and over again, for my creation and for bringing me to this day of new beginnings.
Prayer for a Child
Dear Child, May your soul feel your worth, and may you go forth in life with confidence and poise. Open your heart to compassion. Give generously and receive in humility. Let God’s grace embrace you, and may loving kindness be your reward.
Prayer Affirmation Around Me
The goodness of God is within me, around me, above me, and below me. Precious are You, O God, the source of my strength.
Accomplishment and Awe
Dear God, morning is here, concealing all the surprises that await me today. I pray that I can uphold my principles when a challenge comes my way. I will be flexible, patient, and willing to do what it takes to make this a day of accomplishment and awe.
Soul Engaged
Dear God, I reach out to You from a sacred place, deep in my heart with soul engaged. Thank You for the good and beautiful in this world. The friendships made, the family raised, the tomorrows yet to come. Blessed are You, who, in Your grace, brings me to life.
{bible affirmations}
Psalm 65:11
You crown the year with Your goodness. Your paths overflow with sustenance.
3 John 1:2
Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.
Moses: Exodus 4:10
O Lord, I’m not very good with words. I never have been, and I’m not now, even though You have spoken to me. I get tongue-tied, and my words get tangled.
Matthew 5:9
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
Isaiah 58:11
Where God guides, God provides.
{stories, features, videos}
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